Word: songfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters, whooping it up in folk-song and endearing himself to the no-collar vote...
...show, packed with soldiers and sailors and their girls, is the Palladium's wartime revue. Evening's best laugh: a sign over a box reading 40 hommes, 8 chevaux. Most popular song: F. D. R. Jones. The military finale of Act I drops "air raid" pamphlets called Ruthless Rhymes for Little Nastiz from under the roof. Sample rhyme...
Rebuffed by the 43 votes he received, Thomas J. Daly, "The Taxpayers' Prayer for Mayor," was still singing his campaign song as he waited for the returns in the Election Commissioners' Office last night. Taking many slugs at a bottle of "cough medicine," Daly announced that he had already begun his fight for the nomination two years hence...
...build the great tonal structures of classical music. The influx of popular musical ideas has never stopped.. The countless other adaptations of the dance by all composers continually emphasize the persistent influence of dance rhythms and forms. The last century has seen an unprecedented exploitation of folk-song in the music of Tchaikowsky and the rest of the Russians as well as of the composers of most of the other European nations...
When it comes to the line, it's actually sing a song of sixpence, because line mentor Rae Crowther can trot out a horde of big and active forwards. The first front wall averages 195 pounds from end to end, and the reserves are every bit as big. The three ranking ends, Captain Gustafson, Warner, and Miller are rangy and hard to circle. The tackles are headed by Yard, Cohen, Runte, and Engler--841 pounds of tackle material all told...